commutative

Definition of COMMUTATIVE

: of, relating to, having, or being the property that a given mathematical operation and set have when the result obtained using any two elements of the set with the operation does not differ with the order in which the elements are used <a commutative group><addition of the positive integers is commutative>

commutative

adjectivecom·mu·ta·tive\ˈkä-myə-ˌtā-tiv\

Definition of COMMUTATIVE for Kids

: being a property of a mathematical operation (as addition or multiplication) in which the result does not depend on the order of the elements <The commutative property of addition states that 1 + 2 and 2 + 1 will both have a sum of 3.>